Opinion Brief: Wednesday, March 30, 2016

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Good evening, subscribers. There’s a good reason why Conservatives love to talk about Brad Wall taking a run at the federal leadership: As right-centre parties get pushed to the curb across the country, Wall and his Saskatchewan Party go from strength to strength. How does he do it?

Well, says Brent Rathgeber, it helps that Wall doesn’t take the ideology too seriously. Saskatchewanians are practical people — which is why Wall can promise fiscal frugality and investment in solar power without getting ripped by the true believers. “When it comes to policy, Wall is anything but dogmatic — and in Saskatchewan, that works. He’s perfectly capable of throwing out the conservative policy playbook when necessary.”

From Bill Tieleman and our friends at The Tyee we bring you a pillar-to-post exploration of all the reasons Tom Mulcair is going to find it very, very hard to hold on to the NDP leadership for much longer. “Delegates voting reluctantly to reject a leadership review now must realize what that rejection would mean: Mulcair leading the NDP in the 2019 federal election.”